Towel cabinet



" Nov. 25, 1930.

F. JANTZEN 1,733,149

TOWEL CABINET Filed Feb. 21, 1930 2 Sheets-Sheet Patented Nov. 25, 19301 FRED JANTZEN, or BRONX, NEW YORK TOWEL CABINET Application filedFebruary 21, 1930. Serial No. 430,158.

This invention relates to towel cabinets of the general charactercovered in Patent 1,697,654 of Jan. 1, 1929..

Special objects of the invention are to pro- Vide a stand of thischaracter, which will hold different sizes and styles of towels,

which will be of a simple, substantial, and

readily manufactured and assembled construction and which wi 1 be"convenient for use and practical in all respects,

The foregoing and other-'desir are attainedby the novel features ofconstruction, combinations and relations of parts as hereinafterdisclosed and in the accompanying drawings.

Thedrawings forming part of the. specificationv illustrate one of thepractical commercial embodiments of v the invention, but

the physical form of the invention may be.

changed without departure'from the true spirit and broad scope of theinvention.

Fig. 1 is a'front elevation of the complete stand; Fig. 2 is a side oredge VIEW ofthe same; Fig.. 3 is an enlarged broken vertlcal 5 sectionalView as taken on substantially the plane of line 3--3 of Fig. 4l;' 4: 1sabroken part sectional front View of the stand, the sectional portionbeing taken as on the plane of line 4+4 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a frag- .3mentary broken sectional view of the corner portionofthe towel. rackFig. 6 is a. broken sectional view of one of the corner supporting hooksfor the soiled towel bag as taken on the plane of line 66 of Fig. 3 F1g.1s a broken sectional detail of a.marble1zed form of top for the vanityshelt. V

The complete stand consists 1n the illustration of three main parts,an'up'per cabinet 8 from which the towels are withdrawn at the bottom, avanity shelf ,9 spaced below that in spaced relation on the vanity shelflwhich able objects illustrated forms the top of the lower cabinetstructure. These upper and lower cabinet pieces are shown in Fig. 4 asdetachably fastened together by through bolts 13 of'which there may befour convenientlylocat'ed the corners as indicated by the dotted linesin Fig. 3,

j the head and nut ends 14:, 15 ofthese bolts being exposed within theupper cabinet and beneath the top otthe lower cabinet as in Fig. 4 tofacilitate assemblage or taking apart. l

The front of the lower cabinet structure is shown partly closed by ahinged door'16, whichextends less than the full height of thiscompartment, so as to leave a towel receiving opening 45 above the topofthe same and directly beneath thevanity shelf. As a convenient meansof handling the waste'or soiled towels, a bag orother re movablereceptacle may be located in the bottom compartmen't. A bag suitable forthe purpose'is shown at 17 in the illustration, the same being indicatedas having a reinforcing cord, or draw string 18 about the mouth of thesame and as supported in fully opened' condition by being engaged overthe hooks 19 in the four corners of the compartment. For the latterpurpose, the bag is shown as havingeyelets 2O in thehem through whichthe draw cord is run, located below the cord. Thus the draw cord may bepulled tight to bring themouth ot'the bag tautafter the bag is caughtover the hooks, When the bag is filled,'it may be easily detached'fromthe hooks and the cord drawn to close; the mouth of the bag. Uponopening the door 16, the bag is fully exposed and so can be easilymanipulated either for placing it in the c'abinetTor for removing it.The towels are preferably inter-folded as indicated generally at 21 inFig. 3 with an edge of the lowermost protruding at 22, so a's'to' bereadily'withd'rawn one ata time from the bottomot' the uppercompartment. To facilitate this withdrawing action, the stack of towelsmay be supported on the spaced rollers 23 having pintles 24 dropped inopen; bearings 25 in bars 26 extending across the ends of thecompartment. Four such rollers are-shown forming thebottom of thecompartment and these are indicated as arranged on a suitable are forarching the towels downwardly, so that they will readily slip out whenthe protruding edge of a towel is withdrawn from between the two innerrollers.

The segregation of the interleaved towels is further facilitated bymeans of the corrugated holders 27, Figs. 3, 4 and 5, engaging the frontand back edges of the towels.

At the ends, the towel stack is held in order by the corner flanges 28.

To allow for the adjustment necessary for different sizes of towels, thecorner confining holders may be adjustably mounted. In the presentdisclosure, both longitudinal and t'ansverse adjustments are providedfor by making the upright corner confining flanges 27, 28, as parts ofor carried by angle irons 29, Fig. 5, the backs of such angle ironshaving upturned hooks 31 at their lower ends caught under thelongitudinally extending bars 32, which bars are slidable on thetransversely extending rods mounted in brackets 34c in the corners ofthe compartment. At the top, the corner angles are shown as yieldinglysupported by springs 35 attached to hooks 36 slidably engaged overlongitudinal bars 37, which at their ends are slidably engaged ontransverse supporting rods 38 similar to the lower supporting rods 33.Corner brackets 39 support these upper rods after the manner of brackets34. In Fig. 3, it will be seen that by adjustment of the lower and upperbars 32, 37, on the transverse supporting rods 33, 38, the rack can beset to accommodate towels of different widths and in Fig. 4 it will beseen that by longitudinal adjustment of the corner angles with respectto the bars 32 and 37, the rack can be set to receive different lengthsof towels. These adjustments of the rack are easily accomplished whenthe door of the upper cabinet is opened, said door being preferably ofthe full size of this upper compartment to glve a large mirror area andto expose the full interior of the compartment for adjustment of therack andfor easy placement of the towels in the rack. The placing of astack of towels in the rack is greatly facilitated by the yieldingsupporting connections 35, which permit the corner angles to be forcedapart and the rack thus to be opened up more or less to readily receivethe stack.

It will be evident that the cabinet is adapted for the handling ofeither paper or linen towels and that it can be quickly accommodated tofit various sizes and styles of towels. Because of the yieldingcharacter of the rack, a complete stack or a number of towels may beeasily slipped into position. The lowermost towel is exposed between thesupporting rollers forming the bottom of the rack and so can be easilyreached to pull out the leading edge or to rearrange them sufiicientlyif necessary to facilitate proper removal of 'it-y shelf or other partsmay be suitably the same. The rack may be adjusted to exert a degree ofholding tension on the edges of the towels. Thus by adjusting the upperbars 37, toward each other in Fig. 3, the springs 35 may be brought intoaction to exert a squeezing pressure on the stack, thus gripping them atthe edges and bowing the stack downwardly so that the lower towel will.feed out easily and the towels above the same will be resilientlyretained. The corrugated grip surfaces 27, aid in this segregationprocess and also in holding the upper towels against accidentalwithdrawal. lhe upper and lower main cabinet parts are solidly securedtogether by the through bolts 13 and this construction enables thedevice being readily taken apart for shipping or par-la ing. The wasteor soiled towel bag is easily slipped into position or withdrawn fromthe lower compartment and when taken out, can be tied up by the drawcord and thus be readily handled.

The various parts of the cabinet structure may conveniently be made ofsheet metal, but other materials may be employed. The van- (H'-namented. Thus, as shown in Fig. 7, the top of this shelf may be made asa marbleized slab d0 held in place by a bezel l1 secured by asurrounding flange l2 fastened by screws 9 43 passed up through thebottom flange let of the shelf.

As particularly shown in Figs. 3 and l, the soiled towel bag issupported in the lower compartment with its mouth substantially in linewith or slightly below the top of the door, so as to be practically outof sight and yet in proper position to receive the waste or soiledtowels cast through the opening 4-5 over the top of the door. When thisdoor is opened, the entire interior of the compartment is exposed, thusenabling the has to be easily unhooked and removed and a fresh hag lo beengaged in its place. The towel supporting rack is universallyadjustable to hold different sizes of towels and is adapted for eithercloth or paper towels. The rolls forming the bottom of the towel rackcan be readily removed and replaced and in changing from one size ofrack to another, one or more of these rolls may be removed or added asrequired.

What is claimed is:

1. In combination, a lower cabinet member having a top to provide avanity shelf and provided with a waste towel receiving opening in theupper portion of the same below said vanity shelf top,an upper cabinetmember having hollow dependent side walls resting on said vanity shelftop and supporting the body of the upper cabinet member spaced abovesaid vanity shelf top, fastenings for removably securing said sidemembers of the upper cabinet member to the lower cabinet member, meansin the upper cabinet izs member for supporting, a stack of towelswiththe bottom of the same exposed between said side walls above thevanity shelf top of the lower cabinet member, said fastenings includingthrough bolts located within and extending vertically through saidhollow walls, said bolts having their ends exposed within the raisedbody portion of the upper cabinet member and below the top of the lowercabinet member.

2. A towel rack, comprisingangle pieces to engage about the corners of astack of towels, and spring means for holding said angle piecesyieldingly gripped with the corner edges of a stack of towels.

'3. Avtowel rack, comprising angle pieces to engage about the corners ofa stack of towels, spring means for holding said angle pieces yieldinglygripped with the corner edges ofa stack of towels, and means for variably positioning said yieldably held angle pieces in universallyadjustable relation to accommodate different widths and lengths oftowels.

4. A towel rack, comprising guides for the edges of a stack of towels,said guides having wavy surfaces engaged with the edges of the stack tosegregate the towels and means for holding said guides yieldinglyengaged with the edges of the stack.

5. A towel rack, comprising upper and lower pairs of substantiallyparallel supporting rods, bars slidingly engaged on said rods and stackconfining guides connected between the upper and lower bars and slidablyengaged with said bars.

6. A towel rack, comprising upper and lower pairs of substantiallyparallel support-' ing rods, bars slidingly engaged on said rods, stackconfining guides connected between the upper and lower bars and slidablyengaged with said bars and spring connections acting guides yieldinglygripped with the corner edges of a stack of towels.

9. A towel rack, comprising towel stack confining means and a series ofthree or more substantially parallel spaced rollers at the foot of saidstack guiding means and dis posed relatively in downwardly archedformation to thereby how the stack downwardly for facilitating removalof the lowermost towels between the rollers.

10. A towel rack, comprising towel stack confining means and a series ofthree or more on said guides to yieldingly engage the latter against theedges of a stack confined by the guides. I

7. A towel cabinet having a vanity shelf top, said cabinet having anopening in the front of the same beneath said Vanity shelf top andprovided with a door belowsaid opening giving full access to theinterior of the cabinet, and a soiled towel bag removably supported inthe cabinetbehind said door and with the mouth of the same in openedrelation at approximately the top of the door to receive soiled towelsthrown through the front opening over the top of the door and inposition disclosing vthrough said opening the extent to which it isfilled, without opening the door and being fully exposed and readilyremovable from the cabinet upon opening the door.

8. A towel rack, comprising guides engageable about the corners of astack of towels and spring means for holding said corner

